The Foundation has recently added several new chartbooks on Social Inequality to the website, including new data on income and earnings, educational attainment and achievement, and the rise of economic inequality in the U.S. through 2012.

In each section, the Foundation has assembled a broad set of indicators of social and economic trends that reflect powerful and consequential divisions within the U.S. population. Some of the charts are drawn from government sources, some from published articles and books, and some are based directly on in-house calculations of publicly available data by Russell Sage Foundation staff.

The chart below, for instance, shows changes in family income between two periods in the U.S. Between 1947 and 1975, a period of national economic prosperity, growth in family income was relatively evenly distributed among all income groups giving credence to the adage "a rising tide lifts all boats". Between 1975 and 2012 however, income growth has been differentially distributed among different income categories, with each successively higher income category experiencing significantly greater gains.

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